The results of the second round of the legislative elections have been known for about an hour, when a government adviser summarizes with these words the atmosphere in the camp of Emmanuel Macron, this Sunday, June 19: “Big slap!
She knocked so hard that everyone was dumbfounded.
"A cata", "a collapse", in the words of a history of the conquest of 2017. Or the smallest majority of the Fifth Republic, beheaded of its leaders.
A majority so relative that it opens up major institutional questions: how will the president be able to govern?
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